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South African gang convicted of killing British couple fed to crocs
Daily Mail via MSN ^ | June 9, 2026 | Jamie Pyatt

Posted on 06/10/2026 4:11:22 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

An [terrorist]-linked gang who stabbed and battered a British couple to death then threw their bodies to crocodiles have been found guilty of their murder.

World renowned botanists Rod Saunders, 74, and wife Rachel, 63, were ambushed in South Africa whilst out searching for rare gladioli flowers in remote mountains.

The devoted couple who were married for over 30 years and lived in Cape Town met a bad end whilst setting up camp beside a forest dam in a national park.

A court heard how they were viciously tortured for Rachel's gold credit card PIN number and bank account details before being hacked, stabbed and battered to death.

They were then disposed of after being cocooned in their sleeping bags and thrown off the Tugela River Bridge in the Ngoye Forest National Park to Nile crocodiles.

Just 48 hours earlier the botanic experts were being interviewed by BBC presenter Nick Bailey for a Gardeners World special in the remote Drakensberg Mountains.

Shortly after the BBC2 wildlife documentary team and the horticultural experts parted company the pair were hit after parking their 4x4 to prepare to pitch camp.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; capetown; crocodiles; dailyfail; isis; islamofascism; islamofascists; jamiepyatt; koranimals; murder; nationalpark; ngoyeforest; rachelsaunders; racism; rodsaunders; southafrica; tugelariverbridge

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1 posted on 06/10/2026 4:11:22 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Remember are cultures are equal; the libs like to tell us.


2 posted on 06/10/2026 4:12:47 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Aw, man. Stupid headline writers. I was hoping it was the murderers who were fed to the crocs.


3 posted on 06/10/2026 4:13:12 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I thought the hand was fed to crocs based on the headline. Maybe they should be.


4 posted on 06/10/2026 4:13:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Hand = gang


5 posted on 06/10/2026 4:14:49 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I cannot imagine traveling in South Africa now; it is a country lost to evil and racial hatred.


6 posted on 06/10/2026 4:14:50 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Sirius Lee

I read it the very same way and thought: wow!!! Justice would have been served.


7 posted on 06/10/2026 4:20:53 AM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: af_vet_1981

Many of us remember when it was a nuclear power, SA is the hard evidence certain cultures within certain demographics will never succeed and will always operate at the level of the animals.


8 posted on 06/10/2026 4:21:25 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: Texas Eagle

i thought the same thing! I was like HECK YEAH!!!


9 posted on 06/10/2026 4:22:03 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

There I was, thinking black South Africa had outdone the Saudis.


10 posted on 06/10/2026 4:24:34 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Let’s start with the headline....if you want to know what clickbait is.....this is it.


11 posted on 06/10/2026 4:26:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leavebussed )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Picture on credit card?

Picture showing on cashier terminal when credit card used?

Miscellaneous purchase restrictions $X/week?


12 posted on 06/10/2026 4:30:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & > $300 to many insured vehicle owners 4 gas)
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To: Texas Eagle

“Aw, man. Stupid headline writers. I was hoping it was the murderers who were fed to the crocs.”

That was my initial thought after reading the headline too.


13 posted on 06/10/2026 4:31:52 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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South African gang, convicted of killing British couple, fed to crocs


Just a couple of commas in the headline would have made this story great.


14 posted on 06/10/2026 4:34:10 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Skwor

That’s the way that I read it also.
Found myself thinking, “Alright! Somebody’s got it figured out”.


15 posted on 06/10/2026 4:36:55 AM PDT by skimbell
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> I cannot imagine traveling in South Africa now <

It amazes me that people will go unescorted to places like that. South Africa, the backcountry of Algeria, Central Asia, etc. It is the law of the jungle there. You could be murdered just because some tribesman wants your shoes. Or wants to rape your wife.

Naiveté kills.


16 posted on 06/10/2026 4:39:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Apparently (and sadly), this applies all around the world.

Them...avoid THEM.

Your life may depend upon it.


17 posted on 06/10/2026 4:47:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If only there was some system that would keep those types aparthied from the law abiding.


18 posted on 06/10/2026 4:48:31 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Texas Eagle

“I was hoping it was the murderers who were fed to the crocs.”
It’s not too late.


19 posted on 06/10/2026 5:03:57 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The ANC turned South Africa from a First World Nation into a Third World Hell Hole in 20 years


20 posted on 06/10/2026 5:06:28 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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